strange python scripting error

[Mark Tarver]

On 23 July, 18:01, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:48:46 -0700 (PDT), Mark Tarver
> <dr.mtar... at ukonline.co.uk> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > The only hint at a difference I can see is that my ftp program says
> > the files are of unequal lengths.  test.py is 129 bytes long.
> > python.py 134 bytes long.
>
>         Just a guess...
>
>         Line endings... <lf> vs <cr><lf>
>
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Is that linefeed + ctrl or what?  I can't pick up any difference
reading the files char by char in Lisp.  How do you find the
difference?

Mark